2019 marks the centenary of the creation of the Bauhaus, an exacting movement, the precepts of which still exert a profound influence on us, whether we (…)

Well before the atomic clock, the “mother” of all clocks – the reference for time, as a yardstick was for yards – was the regulator.

The ability to display tiny fractions of time is without a doubt one of horology’s most important conquests. The chronograph was a crucial instrument of (…)

Progress happens in two ways: by radical ruptures, or just the opposite – tiny adjustments. But why on earth go for radical ruptures when you have iconic (…)

Just this once, the special Europa Star October edition of Watch Curator 2018 devoted the majority of its pages to... watches! They are, after all, front (…)

Although always, or nearly always, confined to their cages, tourbillons are breaking free. They are beating at every frequency, in every genre of watch and (…)

How might our timepieces have looked if the Earth was a flat as pancake launched into space? It’s a stupid question, but along the way we would have lost (…)

The history of watchmaking – or rather of measuring time – began the day a human planted a stick in the sand and watched its shadow steadily move during the (…)

Over-use by watchmakers – and others – of the Bauhaus school’s famous founding phrase “form follows function” has turned it into a rather hackneyed expression.

In conventional watchmaking, skeletonising a watch’s movement was a rare speciality practised by a handful of master watchmakers. It was a balancing act (…)

Memento Mori… Remember that you must die! Our time on Earth has a beginning and an end. Without death, there would be no birth.

With greater accuracy and the invention of the chronograph, watchmaking in the 19th century was a booming industry, directly contributing to the rise of the (…)